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Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. What fare what news abroad Shak.

state, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. Burke.

At or to a greater distance; more renotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.

Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

ch all existence is determined and conditioned. Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate. Milton. Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. Froude.

self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.). Men of wit Often fathered what he writ. Swift.

Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.] Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.

r offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.

Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.

To suspect; to doubt. [Obs.] Ay what else, fear you not her courage Shak.

inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful and fain-hearted Deut. xx. 8.

tward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

Somewhat feverish. [Obs.] Johnson.

ct or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness. The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Shak.

To make very happy; to delight. What a glorius entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit. I. Watts.

Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

e head of a violin. -- Fiddle pattern, a form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. (Low) -- To play first, or second, fiddle, to take a leading or a subordinate part. [Colloq.]

attle is fought; also, the battle itself. In this glorious and well-foughten field. Shak. What though the field be lost Milton.

property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at. Burrill.